Welcome to Writing and Rhetoric in Learning Community E

Course Goals

Finished Products and all the other writing and thinking we are doing!

Professor Burnett's Bespoke Goals for English 1302 in Learning Community E

Writing Into the Day

Creating a Culture of Argument that is based on evidence.

Creating a Culture of Community

Embracing complexity in our world and the idea of the "Wicked Problem."

Knowledge Practices and Dispositions

You are capable intellectual agents who can problem-solve, ask questions, conduct research, seek help, and are the guardians/shepherds of your own grades and lives. (I am just here to direct traffic and to be your advocate!)

Reading Discussion

Homework

Read Concept 1 - Writing is a Social and Rhetorical Activity in Naming What We Know (NWWK)

1.0 Writing is a Social and Rhetorical Activity

1.1 Writing is a Knowledge-Making Activity

1.2 Writing Addresses, Invokes, and or Creates Audiences

Write in your Writing Folder. Work with the idea that "Writing is a Social and Rhetorical Activity" by considering how our course syllabus as an example. Can you build a mini-argument that our syllabus is a piece of writing that is both social and rhetorical in nature? You will turn this in in class on Monday. Just have it ready to go in your Writing Folder/Google Drive account.